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powerpc/64s/hash: Restrict stress_hpt_struct memblock region to within RMA limit
authorRitesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:57:27 +0000 (20:27 +0530)
committerMadhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:05:52 +0000 (12:35 +0530)
commit17b45ccf09882e0c808ad2cf62acdc90ad968746
tree4df4d696ee284edc7a2c8837672080a537e24377
parent00312419f0863964625d6dcda8183f96849412c6
powerpc/64s/hash: Restrict stress_hpt_struct memblock region to within RMA limit

When HV=0 & IR/DR=0, the Hash MMU is said to be in Virtual Real
Addressing Mode during early boot. During this, we should ensure that
memory region allocations for stress_hpt_struct should happen from
within RMA region as otherwise the boot might get stuck while doing
memset of this region.

History behind why do we have RMA region limitation is better explained
in these 2 patches [1] & [2]. This patch ensures that memset to
stress_hpt_struct during early boot does not cross ppc64_rma_size
boundary.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190710052018.14628-1-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87wp54usvj.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com/

Fixes: 6b34a099faa12 ("powerpc/64s/hash: add stress_hpt kernel boot option to increase hash faults")
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ada1173933ea7617a994d6ee3e54ced8797339fc.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_utils.c